Fragments of a lesson

Author: Frank Fornasaro
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Publishing house: Roberto Vattori Publisher

"...With words of hope and moderate optimism, from an author who - in his balance - manages not to be overwhelmed by events" "Fragments of a lesson" is a saga of the twentieth century through the personal and choral events of the protagonist Nicolò. Franco Fornasaro inserts into the novel the whole range of his vast interests: the social, the ethnic, the ecological and, overall "philosophical". Interests expressed not in a systematic form, but with a novel in which with the technique of flashback essential dates are retraced, which are simultaneously private and historical. Fragments therefore, but of a broader scope than the reductive value of the term, in which the two spheres intertwine so that this symbiosis avoids the relapse both into the excess of subjectivism and into the opposite excess, that of cold reporting or, worse, of exasperated polemics. In the book we also find a reconnection to the past which is the search for one's roots from which one draws nourishment for existence, in a positive sense, in the name of freedom, of autonomy of judgment, beyond frontiers and borders. We also find a broad historical overview, the post-war years, the Cominform, with the halt to the circulation of ideas, the Algerian question, the collapse of real socialism in the former USSR, in Romania, in Bulgaria, nationalism in Spain. However the fragments the many apparently disjointed facets converge into a single common thread: the joy of living, a witness to carry forward. Even the Stations of the Cross if lived with strength or at least with resignation, they acquire their purpose: they bring to light the essence of a belonging that cannot be extinguished. Frank Fornasaro, son of Istrian parents, was born in Trieste in 1952, lives with his family and works in Cividale del Friuli. Graduated in pharmacy in 1976, pharmacist officer in the Navy 1977-78, owner of a pharmacy since 1980. He was a teacher of mathematics and physics at a professional training center, of pharmacology and homeopathy. He has published numerous novels including: Encounter, Which land?, End of season and the wise men Ethnicities without Borders - Istria: Utopia or Ethnic Laboratory? He has won numerous awards, including: the 1994th edition of the "Abruzzi oggi" award (1997), the 2th edition of the "Madre Terra, Sorella Acqua" award (Assisi 1997), the 2nd prize of the 1997th edition of the international competition "S. Valentino" (Terni XNUMX) and the XNUMXnd prize of the international competition "Padus amoenus" (Sissa XNUMX). He has published almost fifty scientific publications of various kinds, and has written numerous articles on politics, history, ecology and phytotherapy, both classical and modern. His writings can be found in some anthologies and others, including poetic ones, are part of the theatrical show "Suoni di Terre". He collaborates with some periodicals and many radio broadcasts.

Pages: 124